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Australia: Adbri has appointed Samantha Hogg as its deputy chair and Lead Independent Director. She will take up her new post following the resignation of Vanessa Guthrie at the end of February 2023.

Hogg holds over 25 years’ experience across the transport, infrastructure, energy and resources sectors. She was previously the chief financial officer at Transurban Group. She has also served as chair or committee chair in both the public and private sectors, with a focus on the infrastructure and renewable energy sectors. More recently, she was a member of the Australian National Covid-19 Commission Advisory Panel and the Tasmanian equivalent, focusing on the social and economic recovery from the pandemic. Hogg joined the board of Adbri in early 2022.

Pakistan: Lucky Cement has appointed Muhammad Sohail Tabba as its chair. It has also appointed Shabbir Hamza Khandwala as a director. Both appointments follow the death of former chair Muhammed Yunus Tabba in early January 2023.

Saudi Arabia: Tabuk Cement has appointed Yazid bin Khalid Al-Shathri as the chair of its board of directors. Other staff assignments include the appointment of Tariq bin Khalid Al-Anqari as vice-chair of the board and Amal Bint Hussein Redaa as secretary to the board. The company held an election in late December 2022 to appoint its board of directors from late January 2023 to January 2026.

Nigeria: Dangote Cement has appointed Arvind Pathak as its Group Managing Director with effect from 1 March 2023. He will succeed Michel Puchercos, who has been in the post for three years.

Pathak holds over 30 years of experience in the cement sector. He previously worked as the managing director and chief executive officer of Birla Corporation in India. Prior to this he held two positions with Dangote Cement as Dy Group Managing Director and Group Chief Operating Officer respectively. He has also worked for Adani Enterprises and Reliance Cement. He holds an engineering degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi and a post graduate qualification in business administration and management from the National Institute of Industrial Engineering.

Spain: Cementos Portland Valderrivas (CPV) has appointed Jaime Rocha Font as its chief executive officer (CEO). He succeeds Pedro Carranza Andressen in the post, according to Alimarket-Construcción. Rocha Font is currently the CEO of Mexico-based Elementia and he will continue to hold this position. Elementia owns a controlling share of Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas (FCC), the parent company of CPV.

Rocha Font has been the head of Elementia since 2020. Prior to this he was the head of Elementia’s cement division, including subsidiaries Cementos Fortaleza and Giant Cement in the US, from 2015. He also held the position of president of the National Cement Chamber of Mexico between 2019 and 2022. Earlier in his career he spent over 20 years working for Holcim from 1992. He holds a degree in civil engineering from the Universidad Pontificia Católica de Chile and a master's degree in international economics from the Université Libre de Bruxelles amongst other qualifications.